How to setup a DB2 agent to monitor a single partition instance (4226845)

How to Setup a Foglight DB2 Agent for Monitoring a DB2 Single Partition Instance

This video is applicable for Foglight 5.9.1 and higher.

The demo will cover how to create Foglight DB2 agents to monitor a single partition DB2 database instance.

In Foglight 6.0.and higher the Global View databases dashboard is available in the navigation here:

Instance connections are made through JDBC and the following needs to be valid to established DB connectivity to the monitored DB2 instance host:

1. Valid resolvable/pingable hostname or IP
2. Valid active connection port default 50000 for Windows
3. Valid  DB2 instance
4. Available user with sysadm credentials to run permissions script if prompted

OS connections types:

1. SSH, WinRM or WMI connections are needed for Operating System metric retrieval.
2. If Using SSH, open port default 22
3. If using WinRM, look at here
4. If using WMI, look at here

Please review the Foglight for DB2 Permissions Guide, Hardware sizing Guide and Users Guide for additional requirements.